Seconds after having her picture taken with her idol and walking away with a Brooke Henderson-signed baseball cap, Sanvi Srivastava was in her glory.

“I’ve always looked up to her,” said the 10-year-old, wearing an ear-to-ear grin. “It’s a cool feeling.”

Who knows? One day, Sanvi could become the next Brooke.

Like Henderson, who was the star attraction at the Kevin Haime Junior Golf Initiative Tuesday at Eagle Creek, she fell in love with the game before starting full-time school. Sanvi was four when she began taking her first swings. Last year, she played 75 rounds.

All of the above is a testament to Henderson’s popularity and Haime’s program, which has opened the door for children to get involved in the game at an early age.

Sanvi has been in the Haime school — which, with the help of memberships to local golf courses and outside funding allows children access to courses — for four years.

Henderson can’t say enough about the efforts to make it all work.

“It does such a great job of bringing out these juniors, of introducing them to the game and building their skills,” she said.

“Hopefully, they can take to the game and (play it for life) or make a high school team or a college team. But to have all the kids out here smiling, enjoying the game of golf, it’s cool to me.”

To many youngsters hard-wired to their phones, immersed in their love for Snapchat and Instagram, golf is boring, an old person’s pursuit. It’s also financially out of reach for countless kids.

On both fronts, though, Haime’s initiative is aimed at trying to bridge the age and money gap.

At least it provides a chance for youngsters to see the game first-hand.

If it makes a difference to those who believe the game is too hard to conquer, Henderson says “I wasn’t that great off the bat … I don’t think anyone is.”

Then again, she was three years old when she started.

“I had my sister (Britt) that was playing and she was 9-10 years old,” Henderson said. “I got to hang out with her every day and practice and that’s what made it fun and you kind of fall in love with the game and then you put the work in and practice.”

Henderson recognizes that not everyone is going to make it to the PGA or the LPGA Tour, but she says the program is “incredible” for helping shape some young people’s lives.

“It has been a lot of fun to watch,” she said. “It’s my fourth time here and every year it keeps getting a little bit bigger, a little bit better. I definitely see some faces that I recognize. Some of the boys, it’s like ‘Woah, you’ve grown so much, you’re taller than me, you need to stop.’ The success these juniors are having in the Ottawa area is cool to see.”